Quotes About Reception

I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I think when 'Perfect Strangers' landed and was so well received, it was a magic moment.

Gratitude, then, is a capability built up through exercise and focus. It's an ability to perceive, receive, and produce the positive emotion of gratefulness.

A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him,

You see, then, that the whole church is filled with the forgiveness of sins. But there are few who really receive and welcome it.o For they do not believe it and would rather rely upon their own works.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.

The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.

You can't open anything after your 50. You have to wait 'til people stop by the house. 'Oh my God, I'm glad you're here.'

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.